WI: Cleopatra VII & Mark Anthony make peace with Octavian

What if Cleopatra VII and Mark Anthony managed to come to peace with Octavian?

I'm particularly interested in:

- Would Mark Anthony be accepted as a co-regent/pharaoh? There seems to be a mention of him as "Ptolemy the Greek" (ie, the foreigner) and he was presented as the New Dionysus at Antioch (and before that at Athens, without Cleopatra), a designation which was part of Cleopatra's father's titulary...

- If so, would Mark Anthony have had to get rid of Caesarion or would all three reign together?

- Would Caesarion and Cleopatra Selene have married?
 
Yeah, I can't see it. Cleopatra and the Ptolemies making peace with Octavian is probably doable, but I can't see him letting another Roman having control over the wealth of Egypt and Syria, which is how Antony will continue to be regarded back in Italy, even if not in the East.
 
And if Antony doesn't take over Italy then he has no source of replacements for his 'Roman' troops as the existing ones retire or die...
 
Yeah, I can't see it. Cleopatra and the Ptolemies making peace with Octavian is probably doable, but I can't see him letting another Roman having control over the wealth of Egypt and Syria, which is how Antony will continue to be regarded back in Italy, even if not in the East.

Didn't Octavian basically deprive Antony of his Roman citizenship, saying that he should no longer be considered a Roman Antonius, but the Greek Serapion?
 
Didn't Octavian basically deprive Antony of his Roman citizenship, saying that he should no longer be considered a Roman Antonius, but the Greek Serapion?

Yes, I think so, but I'd argue that just shows how much of a threat Octavian found a fellow Roman holding Egypt. Antony as a Roman ruling Egypt was so dangerous that he needed to be "de-Romaised".
 
Egypt was too valuble for Octavian to let go in the end fro two reasons:
1- its grain production and location
2- t became the personal fiefdom esentially of the emperor and all revenues went to them after (before it had largly belonged to teh senate...though i may be confusing this with a later period)
 
2- t became the personal fiefdom esentially of the emperor and all revenues went to them after (before it had largly belonged to teh senate...though i may be confusing this with a later period)

You are doing. Egypt's monarchy was allowed to survive for much longer than that of other areas because the Romans didn't like the idea of any one general being able to control the whole area, due to its massive agricultural wealth. After the Ptolemies were finally deposed in 30BC, it became a private province run by Augustus from which Senators were forbidden from entering without special permission. Egypt remained separately governed, first from Rome and then from Constantinople right up until Heraclius' day.
 
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